Chapter 345: Pre-War Meeting (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

After a while, the conference room was full of people, and seeing that the military and political officials attending the meeting had basically arrived, Ma Zheng put away all the maps and other items on the table, and then announced the official start of the meeting.

"Comrades: Yesterday afternoon, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent an urgent telegram saying that the main forces of the 10th and 110th Divisions of the Japanese Army were attacking our base areas in southern Hebei with all their might. After occupying some county towns in southern Hebei, the Japanese army, with the cooperation of its planes, continued to attack the central area of southern Hebei by separate routes, in an attempt to destroy our anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei. After investigation, the Japanese North China Front some time ago formulated a special battle plan for law and order rectification aimed at our Eighth Route Army, with the aim of clearing out the anti-Japanese armed forces in the occupied areas. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered our unit to strengthen vigilance and be ready to support the troops in the southern Hebei region at any time. Ma Zheng said.

The first to express his opinion was Minister of Military Intelligence Xu Yinghui, who immediately said: "Commander, during this period of time, our intelligence department has also collected a lot of useful things for the transfer of the Japanese army, but some of them are still being verified and have not yet been determined, so I have not reported to the military region a few days ago. More than 30,000 Japanese troops participated in this sweep in southern Hebei, and the main forces were the 10th and 110th Divisions of the Japanese Army. The main areas invaded by the Japanese army were Wei County, Pingxiang County, Julu County and other counties. And these places are the defense areas of the 129th Division of our Eighth Route Army, and now the Japanese army is advancing at a very fast pace, and the battle situation is not optimistic. At the same time, the Japanese troops in central Shanxi, northwest Shanxi, northern Shanxi, northern Hebei, and northwest Hebei were also ready to move, and their direct combat targets were all units of our Eighth Route Army. ”

Xu Yinghui spoke very quickly and very clearly: As the head of the intelligence department of the Suicha Military Region, Xu Yinghui's status in the Suicha Military Region is second only to Ma Zheng and Yun Jian, and his intelligence department is not only the only department in the Suicha Military Region that collects, analyzes, and handles intelligence. At the same time, it is also a security department for internal defense and counterintelligence, and there are also independent armed forces. Although there are not many armed troops, less than 2,000 people, their combat effectiveness is extremely strong. Therefore, the tide rises, and the Minister of Intelligence has become the most powerful person after Ma Zheng and Yun Jian.

The news was indeed very shocking, and the Japanese army not only opened up a posture in southern Hebei and southwestern Shandong, but also took up the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army and local militia and other anti-Japanese organizations. At the same time, the Longmen array was also set up in the northwest and southeast of Jin, and the various departments of the Eighth Route Army should be compared with each other, if there were sporadic battles in other regions, then the entire North China region would be involved in this battle, and it seemed that the Japanese army was serious this time, and would not give up until the Eighth Route Army was destroyed.

"What about the Japanese puppet army on the periphery of our defense area, what is the movement?" Yun Jian immediately asked.

Xu Yinghui immediately said: "The Japanese troops on the periphery of our defense area have not moved much, and the Japanese troops in Zhangjiakou and Datong have only strengthened their vigilance, but they have not advanced to our army's defense area. However, the North China Front Headquarters supplemented the Japanese 16th Division stationed in Zhangjiakou with a wing. It seems to compensate for the losses of the division some time ago. ”

After listening to Xu Yinghui's answer, Yun Jian thought for a while and said: "I see that this is a trick of the Japanese army, it is impossible for them to be unprepared for such a big movement, the standard is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, we must strengthen our vigilance, so as not to be caught off guard by the little devil." ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said, "It is necessary to strengthen vigilance, but there is no need to be too nervous. In my opinion, the Japanese troops in Zhangjiakou and Datong tried to contain our army at most. Prevent our army from moving south to reinforce the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi and the middle of Hebei. I don't believe that the Japanese army has the courage to start a main duel with us at this time, you must know that not long ago we inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in Suixi. The Japanese army will not be able to regain combat effectiveness so quickly. ”

"Secondly, there is no need for the Japanese army to fight to the death with our army, although our Suicha Military Region poses a great threat to them, but it is in a safe corner. The geographical location of the two provinces has already determined that we have not developed much, so the Japanese army will not and cannot transfer all the main forces to clean up our military region. Sugiyama Mototo and Umezu Mijiro were not stupid, their purpose was to wipe out the anti-Japanese forces in the occupied areas, and the two provinces of Suicha were no longer their occupation areas. Therefore, it is impossible for them to launch a full-scale attack on our defense area, at least it is unlikely that they will attack now. ”

"Commander, what are we going to do then?" Yun Jian immediately asked.

"What to do? Of course, it's cold, since the little devils want to have a big game, let's have a good time with them! Ma Zheng said with a sneer.

Yun Jian looked at Ma Zheng. Then he said: "What do you think, ready to support the counter-sweep of other units of the Eighth Route Army?" ”

"It is definitely necessary to support other units of the Eighth Route Army in combat, this time the Japanese army has dispatched almost all its troops, and it is difficult to repel the enemy's attack with the combat effectiveness of our Eighth Route Army, even if it succeeds in countering the encirclement and suppression, its own casualties will be extremely heavy, so we must not stand idly by."

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Comrades, it has been almost two years since the launch, and after two years of fighting against Japan, everyone has seen that the Japanese army will not die in the heart of China. As early as a few years ago, Japan's Yoshiichi Tanaka cabinet held an Eastern Conference on the General Policy of Aggression against China, stressing that "Manchuria" and Mongolia have a "major stake" in Japan's national defense and survival, and that "appropriate measures" will be taken to ensure Japan's special interests in "Manchuria" and Mongolia. After this meeting, Tanaka made a secret presentation to the emperor, advocating that if he wanted to conquer China, he must first conquer Manchu and Mongolia; If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China, etc. ”

This shows the position of the Mongolian Xinjiang region, including our two provinces of Suicha, in Japan's entire expansion strategy, and although the Japanese army has suffered heavy losses under the attack of our army, it does not mean that the Japanese will willingly give up this part of their interests. Not only will they not, but as long as time and strength permit, they will attack Suiyuan and Chahar again and make a comeback, because this is their established strategic national policy, and it is not allowed to be rectified. It is precisely for this reason that we must, as far as conditions permit, expand the defense zone to the Japanese theater as much as possible, so as to increase the strategic depth of our army. ”

Yun Jian and the others all nodded when they heard this, what Ma Zheng said was very reasonable, don't look at the Japanese army being repulsed now, but they will definitely not withdraw from Suiyuan and Chahar so willingly, once the Japanese army has its hands freed, it will launch an invasion attack on these two provinces again, so the Suicha Military Region must take precautions.

"Commander, do you want to take advantage of the favorable opportunity for the Japanese army to launch a large-scale sweep of the occupied areas this time and take the initiative to attack the Japanese army?" Yun Jian asked in a deep voice.

Ma Zheng raised his hand, although he said: "Let's talk about this later, everyone knows that the Japanese army has a complete strategic plan for invading China, so we must not look at every large-scale military operation of the Japanese army in a single and isolated way." After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army returned with a heavy defeat, because we handed over almost all the ships of the 11th Squadron of the Third Fleet to the Nationalist Government, so the Japanese army had lost its superiority on the water on the Yangtze River, and its aircraft carriers could not enter the Yangtze River anyway. ”

"And the Japanese air force was also beaten all over the body by the Chinese and Soviet air forces, so it was impossible to take Wuhan in a short time and force the Nationalist government to surrender. But just as the Japanese army will inevitably attack us, the Japanese will definitely attack Wuhan, because the more the war drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for them, and the quickest way to end the war is to take Wuhan or even Chongqing, so the second battle of Wuhan is imminent. ”

"As I said just now, although the outbreak of the Second Battle of Wuhan is imminent, it is impossible for the Japanese army to quickly take Wuhan under the condition that the army, navy and air force do not have an absolute advantage, so the Japanese army will first take the strategic place of Nanchang and remove the stumbling blocks in the Battle of Wuhan. The battle plan launched by Sugiyama Yuan in North China was ostensibly aimed at encircling and suppressing the anti-Japanese armed forces in the occupied areas, but in fact it had a great deal to do with it, and once the Japanese army mobilized all the anti-Japanese armed forces in North China, it would be much easier for them to attack Nanchang. ”

Yun Jian searched the map for a while, and then asked in surprise: "Does the commander mean that this action of the Japanese army has something to do with the Japanese army's attack on Nanchang?" (To be continued.) )